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Letters Pat-cnt No. 69,453, dated Uetoer l, 1867.

MROVEMENT IN SEWING-NEEDLES.

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TO ALL WHGM IT MAY GONOERN:

Be it known that we, GEORGE ALBERT LLOYD and SAMUEL TnTLow, or" San Francisco city and county, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Needles;" and we do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are suicient to enable any person skilled in the art o: science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use our said invention or improvements Without further invention or experiment.

Prier to our, invention hand-sewing needles were made just long enough hehind the eye 'to give sufficient strength to draw the thread through the cloth sewed, and in order to get the hight of the thread through the cloth the needle was 'forced in hy the thimhle, a little past the middle, and then seized by the thumb and iinger and drawn through. In sewing thick strong cloth, it was often difficult to draw the bight of the thread through the cloth, often requiring the second or third effort before it was accomplished. As it is far easier to exert three or four times the power on a needle, with the thimhle or palm to push it through the cloth, than can be i readily exerted by the thumb and finger to draw it through, we conceived the idea of making the needle long enough behind the eye to push the bight of the thread through the cloth by the thimble or palm, and thus relieve the fingers from the labor of pulling the bight of the thread through the cloth, and rendering the sewing of thick stiff cloth far easier than heretofore.

Vlence the nature of our invention and improvement in hand-sewing needles consists in making the eye so fer from the rear end or the shaft ofthe needle that it will carry the bight of the thread or twine through the cloth sewed, when the needle is pushed by the palm or thimhle, and save the drawing of the hight of the thread through with the fingers; also in diminishing the shaft of the needle from a little behind the eye to the rear end, both in width and thickness, so that it may he pulled through easily after being pushed in by the thimble or palm. In the accompanying drawingsi Figure l is an elevation of our improved needle.

Figure Q is an elevation at a right angle to iig. l, the upper part being shown in section.

In these drawings A is the shaft of the needle, which may be made round or triangular toward the point to adapt it to the kind of work to he sewed. I) is Athe eyerof the needle, made from ive-eighths to one inch from the rear end of the needle, in common sail-needles, so that the hight of the twine in the eye of the needle can be pushedthrough the sail-cloth by the palm instead of being pulled through with the fingers. We make a groove, a, on each side of the needle, from the eye to the rear end, for the twine to lie in; and we diminish the shaft of the needle from a little behind the eye gradually to the rear end, both in width and thickness, so that it may be pulled through easily after being pushed. in by the thiznble or palm. Our improvements in needles will render the sewing of sail and other thick cloth far easier than heretofore by the needles in common use.

Having described our improvements in needles for hand sewing, we claim- Making the eye so far vfrom the rear end of the shaft that it 'will carry the hight of the thread or twine through the cloth sewed, when the needle is pushed through the cloth by the thimble or palm, substantially as described.

We also claim diminishing the shaft of the needle from a little behind the eye gradually to the rear end, both in width and thickness, substantially as described.

' G. A. LLOYD. [1.. SAMUEL TETLOW. [In-Si] Witnesses C. W. M. SMITH, Gro. H. STRONG. 

